Platform Engineer, Public Sector

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Platform Engineer, Public Sector in USA

Exiger
Full time
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USA
08/22/2026
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Richmond, VA

Responsibilities

Design and maintain reusable FedRAMP-aligned AWS account, networking, and identity-perimeter patterns across federal programs.
Build and own a versioned, documented Terraform module library consumed by program engineers.
Operate Kubernetes and EKS platform patterns, including cluster design, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling, and upgrades.
Build production CI/CD paved roads with integrated image scanning, dependency scanning, and infrastructure-as-code policy gates.
Create reusable observability dashboards, alerting, and SLO scaffolding for new programs.
Forecast, govern, and communicate cloud costs across the portfolio, including reserved instances, savings plans, and chargeback/showback.
Support program teams adopting the platform and improve patterns based on deployment feedback.
Participate in customer-context discussions about cloud posture and ATO progress across engagements.
Carry on-call responsibility for the shared platform surface.

Requirements

5+ years of production cloud engineering experience on AWS with deep familiarity with IAM, VPC, EKS, S3, KMS, and CloudTrail.
Hands-on experience operating within a FedRAMP Moderate or High boundary.
Strong Terraform skills, including authoring modules used by other engineers.
Production Kubernetes and EKS experience covering upgrades, RBAC, network policy, and autoscaling.
Production-scale CI/CD pipeline ownership with security gates.
Production observability ownership at meaningful scale.
Experience building reusable platforms, modules, or paved-road tooling for teams beyond one’s own.
Familiarity with cloud cost management at scale, including reserved instances, savings plans, and chargeback/showback.
Comfort participating in customer-facing conversations about cloud and ATO posture.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification is preferred.
Direct AWS GovCloud production experience, FedRAMP authorization evidence experience, internal developer platform experience, security engineering or DevSecOps background, chaos engineering or fault-injection experience, FinOps certification or equivalent experience, and IL5, IL6, or JWICS experience are preferred.
An active U.S. Government clearance is preferred; Secret is the minimum for most engagements and TS or TS/SCI is required for some engagements.

Benefits

Discretionary Time Off with no maximum limit.
Health, vision, and dental benefits.
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Flexible hybrid work from home and the office where applicable.
Wellness stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
Career development programs with reimbursement for educational certifications.
U.S.-based hybrid/remote work with travel to customer sites as engagements require.

Exiger

Exiger transforms supply chain management from a complex challenge into a strategic advantage—driving savings and operational excellence in today’s volatile market. Exiger’s single, intuitive 1Exiger platform provides instant visibility into vast supplier ecosystems through a single pane of glass...

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